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Fringe ArtsBad Skin stronger than ever after pandemic related uncertainties
Montreal punk girl band take on a new genre in latest album.
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OpinionsCoping with code red
With Montreal in it’s second red zone, opinions writers share advice on how to make it through this next phase.
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Special IssueConcordia resources available to students
A list of the services Concordia is offering to students.
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NewsLocal Initiatives Produce Protection for Frontline Workers
Montrealers are coming together and finding new ways to help frontliners.
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Special IssuePhoto Essay: A Portrait of How People Pray In Montreal
We visited their places of worship and learned about the different ways people pray across realities.
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NewsRe-Storying The Land: Fifth Annual First Voices Week Promotes Indigenous Visibility
Concordia is hosting its fifth edition of First Voices Week to promote Indigenous visibility.
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OpinionsBell, Let’s Talk
High-pressure jobs, impossible expectations, and a virtually non-existent mental health care plan reveal a harsher truth: Bell is just another giant media corporation capitalizing on a solitary hashtag.
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Fringe Arts‘Winter’s Daughter’ Retells Family History in Poignant Play
What do you do when you have close to nothing, and lose everything? The play Winter’s Daughter answers: you keep fighting, and play the cards you are dealt.
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NewsLove Letters to Survivors Provides Support to Survivors of Sexual Assault
Love Letters for Survivors provided a warm environment for survivors of sexual assault and allies alike.
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Fringe ArtsThe #MeToo Movement Lives on in ‘Persephone Bound’
In a time where the #MeToo movement is prevalent, artists continues to create works that handle sexual harassment with poise and care.
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Fringe ArtsBAHAY Breaks the Boundaries of the Music Scene in Montreal’s Asian Community
It did not take long for Trinh and Capistrano to realize that they had created something special. Why not stretch that night further, they thought, into a full-fledged organization? BAHAY began as a one-time event and then turned into an organization offering up-and-coming artists a platform while also raising funds for charities.
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Fringe ArtsThe Racist Undercurrents of Migration and Asylum-Seeking
On Sept. 30, Cinema Politica screened the second of this semester’s series of films in the Hall Building. Two films under the topic of migrant rights and activism were presented.
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Fringe ArtsMontreal Feminist Film Festival Fulfills a Need
“There’s a lot of women who have penetrated very masculine sectors, but the contrary is less,” explained film director Martine Asselin.
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NewsIt Takes All of Us Online Consent Training Faces Backlash
Many feel that a lack of systematic change overrides the university’s attempt at a training.
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Fringe ArtsDecolonizing Art At Peripheral Hours and Métèque
Born in Montreal to Chinese immigrant parents in the era of Bill 101, Chan said she has always been questioning her identity. She spent her childhood assimilating and integrating with Quebec’s francophone culture. She learned to navigate the realms of identity politics that strike the province and learned to speak the language. Blending into the landscape, she molded herself into a “Quebecer.”
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Fringe ArtsVR Experience ‘Biidaaban: First Light’ Immerses Audience in Toronto’s Future
You’re standing in the middle of downtown Toronto at Nathan Phillips Square, one of its busiest intersections. Trees weave in and out of the cityscape, standing tall amongst abandoned skyscrapers. Plants are growing through the cracks in the cement, and the sky is high, gleaming in a clear baby blue.
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NewsProtests Denouncing Secularism Law Continue
After having the secularism law formerly known as Bill 21 implemented for a month, protesters continue their demand to have the law changed.
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NewsProtesters Denounce ICE at Montreal’s United States Consulate
Since 2012, ICE has detained nearly 1500 U.S. citizens, the main targets being children of immigrants, and citizens born outside of the U.S. Forced to prove their American citizenship, detainees spend nights in detention facilities, away from friends and family. Protesters stood in solidarity with detained migrants.
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Fringe ArtsVAV Gallery Eases Into the Fall With ‘It’s Always Better to Wear a Mask’
“Reach out and wade into the hazy, indeterminate past. Imagine your partner’s first memory.”
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Fringe ArtsRosie Bourgeoisie: Opulent and Voluptuous
“I let go of all my barriers that I had before, I let go of all [of] what people could think of me. I just abandoned myself to this art and to this character that I was building.”
